Button-fastener



(No Model.) i

` ERLANGER.

' BUTTON PASTENER.

No. 264,520. y Patented Sept. 19, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EETTCE.

CHARLES ERLANGER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. i

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,520, datedSeptember 19, 1882.

Application ined July 20,18872. (No model.)

To allwtom 'it may concern Be 1t known that I, CHARLES ERLANGEE,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State ofMaryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Button.

Fasteners, of which the following is a specification. Y

Myimprovement relates to buttonfasteners; and the Objectis to providecheap and efficient means to fasten buttons 'to fabrics, whereby theemployment of thread is dispensed with and the fastening is effected bymeans of metallic connections of peculiar form and construction.

I am aware that metal staples have been used before for this purpose,andI lay no claim, broadly, thereto.

In the button-fastening devices in general use the staples, after havingbeen inserted through the button, have their points turned, the turningover beingdone after such staples have been passed through the button,leaving but a single thickness of the staple ends or arms as bearings orretaining-binders for the button or disk, as the case may be. Suchstaples therefore provide in practice but a single strand at their endsto resist strain, which easily loses the grip.

My improvement consists in fortifyin g and strengthening the terminalends ofthe staplearms before they are inserted in the button, suchstrengthened ends bei n gafterward turned down on a plane parallel withand against the middle or dish of the button.

Referring to the drawings that accompany this specification, Figure 1represents the blank of a disk having at each opposite side an extendingarm or strip, which, in practice, are doubled over at their ends beforebeing passed through the button, and are then turned dat against thesurface of the button. Fig. 2 represents a shoe or washer having a notchat each side edge, into lwhich takes one of the extending arms of thedisk shown in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a side view ot' Fig. 1. Fig. 3x is aside view of Fig. 1, showing the ends of the arms turned down beforebeing inserted in the button. Fig. 4 is an enlarged face view of abuttonattached to a piece of fabric bythe devices shown in\Figs. 1, 2, 3. Fig.5is a section on the line x of Fig. 4:. Fig. 6 is a face View of abutton attached to the upper side of a piece of fabric, the disk beinginserted from the front. Fig. 7 is a section on line y of Fig. 6. Fig. 8is a sectional view of a button fastened to a piece of fabric, saidbutton swaged up or dished up centrally.

Similar letters of reference indicate `like parts on each figure.

A isla metallic disk, having on each ofits opposite sides an extendingarm or strip, c. Fig. l shows this disk dat in its blank form before itsarms are turned over. I n the side view thereof shown in Fig. 3 thedotted lines indicate the position of the arms a when the ends a arebent over and returned inwardly after the button is completely fastened.

B is a shoe or Washer having notches or recesses b at its opposite sideedges, into which takes respectively one ofthe arms a of the disk A,thus lopking the parts together and preventing lateral movement.

C is the button proper, having ordinary cable-holes c.

y D is a piece ofthe fabric ot' a garment.

c represen'ts the end portions of the arms a. (plainly shown in Figs. 5,7, S) as bent over and turned under, (also in dotted lines, Fig. 3,)thus presenting resistance in direct opposition to the power applied andstrain when the button is in use, the peculiar function of the doubledends being to afford an unyielding grip on the button-surface that willnot bend when t-he button is subjected to strain, as it would do it' theends a were only one thickness of metal. Before the arms a are turnedover on the button, as described, I place under them, against thesurface of the button, a side-notched shoe, B, and into each respectiveside notch one of the arms engages as it is turned up and bent over,thus interlocking them together.

In Figs. 4, 5, the disk A is represented as applied to the rear of thefabric, and the notched shoe B as applied to the front ot' the button;95

ton the supplementary shoe B may well be dis- IOC) pensed with, as theswnged or dished part of scribed, before beng'passed through the'hu't-'m the button presents arecess, which materially ton, and adapted, afterbeingr passed through adds to the resist-ance of thedoubled ends a thecable-holes of a. button, to be turned over ofthe arms a. on the surfacethereof, substantially as de- Having 110W fully described my invention,scribed.

what 1 claim is` CHARLES ERLANGER.

A button-fastenei'consisting of a disk pro- Witnesses:

*vided withextending side arms strengthened ISAAC FRANK,

'by having theirends folded-or doubled, as de. IEIENRnrv HALLENSTETN.

